Gaughan

name

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"gaughan" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Gaughan” is uncommon English (frequency #90,472 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,472
frequency rank, English
2,313
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.

Corpus desk

Index EN-gaughan · Gaughan · English

Gaughan · rank #90,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,472
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,313
  • PHOTO-FINISH Garside

Nearest frequency peer: Garside (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Long-tail ranks near “Gaughan”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gaughan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Gaughan
PropertyValue
HeadwordGaughan
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#90,472
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Gaughan” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Gaughanfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Garside” (#90,471), “Garfinkel” (#90,470), “gamely” (#90,469). Among 2,313 “G” headwords, “Gaughan” is #90,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Gaughan is uncommon English at frequency #90,472 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".

Gaughan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gaoithin. The correct English form is Gaughan, spelled G-A-U-G-H-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gaoithin.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gaughan"?
"Gaughan" is spelled G-A-U-G-H-A-N.
What does "Gaughan" mean?
As a proper noun, "Gaughan" means: A surname from Irish.
What is the origin of the word "Gaughan"?
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gaoithin. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gaughan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Garside#90,471Giffard#90,482Frannie#90,457gonadal#90,488

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list